Colistin resistance: First detection in the microbiota of a Canadian pig farm.
Colistin is considered a last resort antibiotic to treat certain multidrug-resistant bacterial infections in humans. Before its...
6 janv. 2020
Essential oils: a promising treatment for porcine respiratory infections
Swine pathogens cause significant economic losses for Canadian animal producers and there is an urgent need to identify novel...
1 déc. 2019
Fecal transplants in piglets: a promising pilot study
Several studies have demonstrated that the microbiota or microbial flora (all microbes living in the digestive tract, oral cavity, on...
1 nov. 2019
GUIDE ON RESEARCH PRIORITIES IN THE PORCINE SECTOR - HORIZON 2024
As part of the 2015-2020 Strategic Plan for the Quebec pork industry, a Research, Development and Transfer (RTD) Forum was held to...
29 oct. 2019
Probiotic in 1 day old chicken as intestinal wall protector
Numerous studies on beneficial microbes to the digestive microbial flora of chickens have been made (this bacterial population is called...
3 oct. 2019
Use of new genomic tools in the fight against PRRS virus
Diseases are often perceived as having a single cause and in the case of infectious disease, we expect to identify a single infectious...
25 juin 2019
An innovative platform for vaccine development: nanovaccines provide a new weapon to fight against C
Chikungunya infections are caused by a virus of the same name and is spread by mosquitoes belonging to the Aedes genus. When infected...
29 avr. 2019
First report of pestivirus infection in Canadian piglets
Pestivirus infections cause significant morbidity and mortality characterized by shaking and muscular spasms that set in within the early...
2 avr. 2019
Additive and weaning: skinny piglets react differently to bacterial infection than plump piglets
As best practices regarding antibiotic use in veterinary medicine evolve and with the recent hype surrounding probiotics and microbiota,...
18 févr. 2019
Streptococcus suis and Haemophilus parasuis, bad bugs that aren’t friends, but stay out of each othe
Streptococcus suis (S. suis) and Haemophilus parasuis (H. parasuis) bacteria are spread between pigs through snout contact. While some...
26 sept. 2018
